September 14: British government switches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. (Doctor Who and Real Life)

The Flintstones and Rubbles, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, arrive in Philadelphia and meet Ben Franklin during his kite-flying experiment to discover the nature of electricity. (The Flintstones, date from Real Life)

Duncan MacLeod persuades Kassim, the immortal prefect of an unnamed North African province, to spare the life of Reza, a cobbler who fell in love with a princess. Kassim agrees, but Duncan owes him a favour.(Highlander: The Series)

Clockwork androids come through time to fetch the "complete" brain of Madame de Pompadour. The Tenth Doctor enters Versailles on horseback, cutting off the time window to the SS Madame de Pompadour and subsequently shutting down the androids. Madame de Pompadour gives the Doctor a way back to his TARDIS. (Doctor Who)

Harman Deltahead meets his neighbour, who has an angelic smile more who is Kun Lan. (killer7)

1759

The Neimoidians become the leaders of the Trade Federation. (Star Wars)

The town of Collinsport is established around the Collins family fishing business. Construction begins on the Collins family manor. (Dark Shadows)

1762

Vidar Kim, Senator of Naboo and the Chommell Sector, is assassinated on Coruscant. Palpatine, secretly incumbent Sith Apprentice Darth Sidious, is elected to replace him. This is not suspicious in the slightest. (Star Wars)

Zombie outbreak in St. Lucia. Whites flee; outbreak put down by slaves and the few free black men. French authorities arrive 10 days later and force all black people on the island into slavery. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

April 15: Death of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour from tuberculosis. The Tenth Doctor, too late to take in Madame de Pompadour as a companion, is left a letter by the King of France as her body is taken away. (Doctor Who)

In India, while attempting to kill the leader of the Thuggee cult, Duncan MacLeod enters a love triangle with Alice Ramsey and Vashti. Kamir, immortal leader of the Thuggees, kills Alice's husband and persuades Vashti to burn herself on her husband's funeral pyre, leaving Duncan mourning for another lost loved one. (Highlander: The Series)

1766

April: After killing a series of women for their scents in Grasse, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is caught by the authorities and sentenced to death.more When he's about to be executed, he uses the perfume he created to make the crowd love him and declare him innocent. (Perfume)

At about this date, the planet Eminiar VII goes to war against its former colony Vendikar. The war lasted for 500 years, ending in 2267. During the war, the two sides switched from using actual weaponry to using computer simulations. The two sides calculated the casualties each strike would cause. An equivalent number of actual people would then be asked to commit suicide. (Star Trek: The Original Series, novelization Star Trek 2)

The inhabitants of Epsilon 3 leave the planet, leaving behind the Great Machine and it's guardian. (Babylon 5)

Thomas Gainsborough paints "The Two Georges," commemorating George Washington's meeting with King George III and the peaceful resolution of tensions between England and its American colonies. (The Two Georges)

The entity currently known as Jones, then known as Elizabeth, becomes Governess to Samuel Langdon. (Gunnerkrigg Court)

Rasmus Gynt builds a fortune and becomes a wealthy farmer in the area of Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. (Peer Gynt).

A delegation from the Thirteen Colonies led by George Washington meets with King George III and his ministers to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the brewing hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain, a process while will ultimately result in the North American colonies being unified as the North American Union and remaining under the British Crown. The successful meeting is later immortalized by a painting by Gainsborough, "The Two Georges" (The Two Georges).

The Collins family mansion is completed. After Barnabas rejects the affections of serving girl Angelique, the patriarch and his family are killed. Barnabas becomes a vampire and is buried for 196 years. (Dark Shadows)

1777

June 6 - Birth of Richard Sharpe to a prostitute and an unknown father. (Sharpe)

July 7 - Count de LaFey pushes his wife down the stairs after finding out that she gave birth to a bastard. (King Diamond album Abigail)

1778

June 4: George III's birthday. The Antelope sets sail from Sherbrooke on an ill-starred venture under Elcid Barrett.note Accordingly, they arrived at Montego Bay on 3 September, set sail again on the 8th, sighted their Yankee prey that same day, caught up and engaged her in battle on the 10th... and the narrator is relating his tale of woe in Halifax in mid-1784. ("Barrett's Privateers")

The crew of the immortal Captain Terence Kincaid, transporting a valuable cargo from Asia to London, declares mutiny. Kincaid is abandoned on a desert island. The ship sinks, and Duncan MacLeod, who was a crew member, washes up on Japan. (Highlander: The Series)

The mortal samurai Hideo Koto takes on Duncan as a student, and his daughter, Maya, teaches him the more refined aspects of Japanese culture. When the shogun discovers that Hideo has taken in a foreigner, he orders Hideo to commit seppuku. Duncan becomes the protector of Hideo's descendants and takes up the family katana. (Highlander: The Series)

According to family tradition, the first Yancy Fry serves as a minuteman in the American Revolutionary War. His namesake descendant in the 20th century would misremember him as fighting "Commies" in the American Revolution. (Futurama)

A Boston silversmith named Paul Revere makes a carving knife for the Bartlet family of New Hampshire. (The West Wing)

1780

The Mandalorians are destroyed by a Jedi task force led by Count Dooku in the Battle of Galidraan. Jango Fett is the only survivor. (Star Wars)

The Jedi Vergere is dispatched to investigate Zonama Sekot; she offers to go with the Yuuzhan Vong and become their slave and informant in exchange for them holding off on invasion. (Star Wars)

In England, Duncan MacLeod and a widowed Duchess have Peter Kanis executed by hanging. However, Kanis turns out to be immortal, and vows revenge on Duncan for killing one of his dogs. (Highlander: The Series)

Elly Kedward of Blair, Md. is accused of witchcraft, banished from her village during a harsh winter, and presumed dead. (The Blair Witch Project)

Dracula ventures into France and becomes an advisor in the court of King Louis XIV. (Dracula Lives #5)

Raith Sienar presents the original concept for the Death Star to Wilhuff Tarkin. (Star Wars)

In England, tavern wench Roxanne steals the purse of Terence Coventry, who chases her to get his money back. Roxanne gains the aid of Duncan MacLeod who senses that Coventry is a fellow immortal. The two briefly duel over the fate of the woman, while Roxanne steals Duncan's horse and rides away. This story would make it into a 20th century Romance Novel ... with several significant details changed. (Highlander: The Series)

Forty years after the Battle of Culloden, the few remaining Jacobites are tempted to rise again. Duncan MacLeod and Warren Cochrane arrange to meet Bonnie Prince Charlie at a tavern in Normandy. By then, Charlie was the Jacobite Pretender. The meeting fails and no rising follows. The two immortals would later cannot agree on how Charlie was. (Highlander: The Series)

At about this time, Duncan befriends fellow immortal Gabriel Piton. The two friends frequent whore houses and use their combat skills against the French authorities. (Highlander: The Series)

Dracula leaves King Louis XIV's court as the revolution starts, refusing to aid him in quelling it. (Dracula Lives #6)

Head of Orpheus smuggled out of France and to an isolated island monastery (The Sandman)

Marie-Christine du Lac, a lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette, becomes the Slayer. At around the same time, she becomes sympathetic to the revolutionaries. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

First US presidential primary elections are held in Coburn Elementary School. (killer7)

Richard Sharpe is sent to work as an apprentice chimney sweep, but quickly runs away to St. Giles'. There, he is taken in by Maggie Joyce, a prostitute who teaches him thievery. (Sharpe)

1790

Count Dooku, aka Darth Tyranus, prompts the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, nearing the end of his second and legally last term as Chancellor, manages to get the Emergency Powers Act passed, eliminating term limits until the crisis has passed. (Star Wars)

Death of Marie-Christine du Lac. Claudine becomes the new Slayer, and her Watcher has her kill aristocrats as well as vampires. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The First Doctor and companions arrive in Paris, France, during the Reign of Terror. (Doctor Who)

Jean-Philippe De Lafaye III, the self-proclaimed greatest swordsman in Normandy, is stabbed in the back by a jealous husband. He never had a chance to pull out his sword. Jean-Philippe revives as an Immortal. (Highlander: The Series)

December 13: A meteor strikes near Wold Newton in Yorkshire; unknown to them, nearby people are affected by its radiation, who have offspring of exceptional ability. (Wold Newton Universe)

The Clone Wars end. Anakin kills Count Dooku unceremoniously. The Old Republic is abolished and the Galactic Empire established in its place, with Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader, the new Emperor Palpatine's apprentice. Order 66 is implemented, killing all but a handful of Jedi; the rest go into exile. Birth of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa. (Star Wars)

In England, Duncan MacLeod trains Jean-Philippe De Lafaye III in the ways of the Immortals. The combat skills of the student improve, but he is overconfident and dies in a duel against Damon Case. (Highlander: The Series)

33rd Regiment of Foot is deployed to India to support to East India Company. (Sharpe)

Cameron, mortal lover of immortal Alex Raven, is killed by rival immortal Gerard le Roi. Alex kills him brutally in revenge. Duncan MacLeod witnesses the end of the fight and criticises her for killing an unarmed opponent, but Alex is in no mood to listen. (Highlander: The Series)

Robert and Gina De de Valicourt celebrate the 100th anniversary of their wedding with a renewal of their vows in Paris, attended by several of their Immortal friends including Duncan MacLeod, Hugh Fitzcairn, Robert Burns and Carolyn Mortimer. Robert is arrested and sentenced to execution by guillotine, but is rescued by the rest. (Highlander: The Series)

Convicted thief Jean Valjean is sentenced to hard labor at the notorious Bagne de Toulon. Approximate birth of Fantine in the French town of Montreuil. (Les Misérables)

1797

Peabody and Sherman help Lord Horatio Nelson win the Battle of Trafalgar by quickly rowing back to England and casting his ship off from the dock. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

1798

1799

Early 1799: Richard Sharpe strikes an officer. He is sentenced to 2,000 lashes, but this is commuted to 200 by executive order. He accompanies William Lawfoot on a campaign to rescue Charles Morris, but the two are captured and imprisoned by the Tippoo Sultan. Lawfoot teaches Sharpe to read during their imprisonment. (Sharpe)

April 5: Seringapatam is besieged by British forces (Real Life). Richard Sharpe escapes imprisonment and kills the Tippoo Sultan, gaining a fortune in jewels and a promotion to sergeant in the process. (Sharpe)

Ichabod Crane, a New York police constable, arrives at the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. Performed by the Headless Horseman. (Sleepy Hollow)

Peabody and Sherman discover that Beethoven has writer's block, and repeatedly save him from his successively more dangerous attempts to inspire himself. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

January 15: Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII celebrates her 16th birthday with the play I Want to Be Your Canary, as performed by the Tantalus theater troupe. The performance is a cover to "kidnap" the princess, setting off a series of events that culminate in... (Final Fantasy IX)

March 9: ...the final battle against the eternal darkness, Necron, who aims to revert everything to nil. (Final Fantasy IX)

April 18: Lieutenant Jack Aubrey is promoted to the rank of commander and begins his association with Dr Stephen Maturin. (Master and Commander)

June: The escape of political prisoner Cesare Angelotti triggers a series of tragic events. (Tosca)

Late 18th Century

Napoleon conquers the British Isles, forcing Britainia to move its centre of power to the colonies in the New World. (Code Geass)

Elizabeth Bennet meets — and is greatly offended by — Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy at a local dance. This meeting will result in a number of romantic entanglements and complications between Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy, and their family, friends, acquaintances and enemies (Pride and Prejudice)

At the turn of the century, Jon Gynt has squandered most of his father`s money, and has to face bankruptcy shortly after. He leaves home with a peddler`s bag, and leaves his young son and wife behind (Peer Gynt)

Somewhere in provincial France, an enchantress turns a cruel prince into a beast and his servants into anthropomorphic household objects. Years later, the Beast and a bookish village girl named Belle fall in love with each other, thereby ending the curse. (Beauty and the Beast)

Yuki Makimura's Watcher commits seppuku. Three months later, Yuki herself is turned into a vampire by The Master. Her existence is stricken from the records of the Watchers' Council. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Duncan MacLeod and Gabriel Piton have a reunion in Great Britain. They have a duel over disagreement over Gabriel's theft of jewels, but Duncan lets Gabriel live. Gabriel gets worse. (Highlander)

In France, aristocrat Philippe D'Estaing's adopted son, Morgan, tries to kill Phillippe's biological son, Bernard, in order to inherit the family fortune. Events go south, and Morgan is stabbed in the back, but revives as an immortal. He is subsequently taken in by Xavier St. Cloud. (Highlander)

William Dodd massacres a British garrison; Richard Sharpe is the only survivor. (Sharpe)

1804

February 16: Peabody, Sherman, and Stephen Decatur burn down the captured ship Philadelphia off the coast of Tripoli. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Han Solo escapes from Trader's Luck and begins life on his own, apart from Garris Shrike's band of space gypsies. (Star Wars)

Kamino Uprising of then-all-Jango-Fett-Clone Stormtroopers, on orders of the Kaminoans, who want less imperial control. In response, the Empire begins making clones from multiple genetic sources and begin taking volunteers into the Storm Troopers. Quality of the average trooper plummets like a rock almost immediately. (Star Wars)

Duncan MacLeod and Amanda settle for a while in Bavaria. One night, she runs off with the immortal Zachary Bane, taking all the jewels of the Holstein estate with her and framing Duncan. Duncan bears her no ill will over this. (Highlander)

Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, who promotes him to ensign. Due to friction within the ranks, Sharpe is then transferred to the 95th Rifle Regiment. (Sharpe)

Would-be explorer Leslie Edwards teams up with the belligerent drunkard Bartholomew Hunt to try and beat Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific coast of North America. (Almost Heroes)

Charles Francois Myriel, the parson of Brignolles is called to Paris in a smaller errand. He accidentally encounters Napoleon, and hails Napoleon as a "great man". Napoleon, flattered by this remark, grants Myriel the title of bishop. (Les Misérables)

In England, the second son of the Lattimore family steals the family treasure. He is killed soon after by the immortal criminals Lyman Kurlow and Peter Matlin, who frame the mortal Johnny Sondringham. Johnny's life is saved by Duncan MacLeod 'dying' in his place. (Highlander)

While demonstrating his time traveling phone booth, Rufus takes Bill and Ted to this year, landing them in Austria during the Napoleonic Wars. As they're leaving, Napoleon Bonaparte himself accidentally ends up being sucked into the circuits of time with them when they return to 1988. (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)

Atrus is deceived by his sons and imprisoned in K'veer. In December he is rescued by a person whose identity remains unknown. (Myst)

Birth of Wu on planet Omega IV. He would grow up to become the leader of the Kohm tribal group of his planet, descendants of communists. Due to the advanced immune system of his tribe, Wu would still be alive in the 23rd century. (Star Trek: The Original Series)

Taking advantage of a conflict between Britain and France, Morgan d'Estaing and Xavier St. Cloud poison the St. Cloud family, leaving Morgan as the sole heir and allowing him to claim the fortune. The British forces soon arrive, headed by Lieutenant Duncan MacLeod. The D'Estaings are proclaimed to have committed suicide. Duncan is suspicious of his two fellow immortals but doesn't have the time to deal with them. (''Highlander')

Before May: Richard Sharpe takes command of a small squad of riflemen and protects a group of Spanish guerillas in an attempt to liberate Santiago de Compostela. (Sharpe)

May 12: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Battle of the Douro. (Sharpe)

July 27 - 28: Richard Sharpe takes a French Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Talavera. (Sharpe)

Han Solo, a student in the Imperial Flight Academy, frees Chewbacca from slavery; Chewbacca responds by swearing a life-debt to Solo, and remain his partner for life. The two go to Nal Hutta to become smugglers. (Star Wars)

Lando Calrissien wins the Millenium Falcon in a game of sabacc. (Star Wars)

Yoda kills a dark Jedi in a cave on Dagobah, saturating the cave with Dark Side energy. (Star Wars)

Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the live of General Sir Arthur Wellesley and is promoted to lieutenant. (Sharpe)

Terje Vigen is captured by a British navy vessel off the coast of southern Norway, while trying to break the blocade. (Terje Vigen)

September 27: Richard Sharpe takes place in the Battle of Bussaco. (Sharpe)

Duncan MacLeod travels across Switzerland with Brian Cullen, a fellow immortal and the greatest swordsman in Europe. Their journey is interrupted by Alan Kelly, a mortal swordsman and the latest in a long line eager to beat the best and get a reputation. Cullen wonders why they keep coming after so many have died by his sword. (Highlander)

Peabody and Sherman find Napoleon's lost Imperial Suspenders, but decide to keep them instead of giving them back to him. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

May 3 - 6: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro. (Sharpe)

America supports Napoleon by declaring war on Britain, but due to various factors, is defeated with immense loss of territory. Parts of the northwest are ceded to the Michigan Territory (a joint British/New Englander possession) and an Indian Confederation under Tecumseh, serving as a buffer state. Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey successfully secede and form the rival Republic of New England. (Decades of Darkness)

Fantine, fifteen years of age, arrives in Paris. While working as a seamstress, she encounters the students, and begins a relationship with the much older Félix Tholomyes. (Les Misérables)

1812

January 20: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo. (Sharpe)

March 16 - April 6: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Siege of Badajoz. (Sharpe)

July 22: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Battle of Salamanca. (Sharpe)

Elizabeth III nominates her lover, Sir Ricardo von Britannia, as her successor upon her death; he then becomes the first Emperor of Britannia. The Britannian calendar, Ascension Throne Britannia (a.t.b.), is established. (Code Geass).

1814

April 7: During a stormy night at sea, Dr. Henry Morgan is murdered by the crew of the Empiress of Africa after he saves the life of an African slave. He revives for the first time shortly afterward and realizes that he is apparently immortal.Also during the storm The slaves on board the ship gain access to a key that Henry drops after being shot. The slaves revolt and free themselves. (Forever)

April 10: Richard Sharpe takes part in the Battle of Toulouse. (Sharpe)

Luke Skywalker begins his journey after the death of his aunt and uncle. He starts Jedi training under Obi-wan Kenobi. Kenobi is killed in battle by Darth Vader. Luke destroys the Death Star in the Battle of Yavin. (Star Wars) An Imperial counterattack forces the Rebels to evacuate Yavin IV. (Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike)

The Duke of Wellington, upon his return to England to deliver his report on the Napoleonic warsmore "We Won." He was of course referring to the 6-year long Peninsular War ("in Spain, fighting the French"), and was unaware that Napoleon would later escape from Elba for the Hundred Days and require a further trouncing at Waterloo., challenges the Prince Regent to a duel with cannon. This ends amicably when Prince George more who is really Edmund Blackadder, having swapped places with George is saved by the cigarillo case in his breast pocket which absorbed the blow from the cannon ball. The Prince's butler, Edmund Blackadder, was sadly killed though when he idiotically upsets the Duke. Well known London pie and coffee-shop owner Mrs Miggins runs away to Scotland with Mad Jock MacAdder. (Blackadder the Third)

Peer Gynt, now approximately twenty years of age, elopes with the bride Ingrid, who is scheduled to marry another man. He is taken into the mountains after a wild night with three dairy maids, and is nearly beaten to death by angry trolls. In autumn, the Mountain King´s daughter gives birth to a child she claims to be his. (Peer Gynt).

Terje Vigen is released from a British war prison and returned home, only to find that his wife and daughter has died from starvation. (Terje Vigen).

Edmund Blackadder from 1999 travels through time accidentally landing on the Duke of Wellington before declaring his plan, allowing a French victory. Blackadder later repairs this. (Blackadder: Back and Forth)

Duncan MacLeod participates in the battle while serving in a Scottish regiment. Darius, an immortal healer, takes him on as an apprentice and shows him the true nature of war. (Shadow of Obsession)

Peabody and Sherman track down the Duke of Wellington in the hot springs of Waterloo, Denmark. They return him to Waterloo, Belgium, so he can order the British army to attack. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Thénardier, a serf to the French army, accidentally revives Pontmercy, a French cavalryman, who was presumed dead after the battle. Later that year, he establishes an inn with the money he got from Pontmercy. (Les Misérables).

Euphrasie, later known as "Cosette", is born. Her parents are the student Felix Tholomyés and the seamstress Fantine. Jean Valjean is released from prison in october. He meets the bishop Myriel, who grants him pardon and forgiveness for stealing from him. Valjean promises to build a better life. In december, he arrives at Montreuil-sur-Mer, saving the mayor`s children from a fire, and takes the name "Madeleine". Soon after, he establishes a business in town. (Les Misérables).

Peer Gynt is judged an outlaw by the local court, and builds a hut in the mountains. Solveig comes to him, but his infortunate encounter with the troll community forces him to flee the country. He stops by to comfort his dying mother before he leaves. Later that year, he shows up in Charleston, Carolina with a little more than a penny to his name. (Peer Gynt).

Some time after his first death, Henry Morgan returns to his home and attempts to convince his wife, Nora, that he is immortal. She has him committed to an asylum. (Forever)

1816

January 29: Duncan MacLeod decides to leave Europe, where hatreds run deep, for America, hoping for a fresh start on life. (Shadow of Obsession)

The Battle of Hoth. Luke begins training under Yoda on Dagobah. Darth Vader reveals himself as Luke's father after defeating him in combat. (Star Wars)

Immortals Duncan MacLeod and John Durgan independently arrive at Fort Wolfe, Montana. Durgan kills the local schoolteacher and priest, and makes off with all their money and precious items. Duncan swears vengeance. (Highlander)

June: Fantine is abandoned by Tholomyés after a student prank.(Les Misérables)

1818

Death of Jabba Desilijic Tiure. The Battle of Endor. The Rebel Alliance achieve a decisive victory over Galactic Empire in a galaxy far, far away. The downfall of Darth Vader and the Emperor, along with most of their closest and highest ranking staff. Beginning of civil war and warlordism among remaining Imperial factions and figures. (Star Wars)

April: The seamstress Fantine travels north to her hometown Montreuil, and leaves Cosette in the care of the Thénardier couple in Montfermeil.Later the same year, she arrives in Montreuil, and takes work in the Madeleine factory. (Les Misérables)

1819

The business which would become Lordly Tailor Department Stores is established. (Ace Attorney)

Establishment of the New Galactic Republic by the Rebel Alliance. (Star Wars)

Young Englishman Aubrey becomes acquainted with Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him to Rome and Greece, where Ruthven apparently dies. As a final request, Ruthven asks Aubrey to swear not to tell anyone about his death for a year and a death, which Aubrey does. (The Vampyre)

1820

The New Republic switches from guerilla tactics to outright conquering of key Core Worlds. Rogue Squadron is reestablished to help facilitate this. (Star Wars)

Nearly a year after Ruthven's apparent death, he mysteriously returns to Britain. Aubrey's oath prevents him from telling his sister, whom Ruthven is marrying, of his suspicions that Ruthven is a ruthless killer. Aubrey's sister is killed on their wedding night, and Ruthven disapears.

Peabody and Sherman help Hans Christian Oersted discover the connection between electricity and magnetism by throwing a picnic. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Onaya, a muse/psychic vampire, bonds to John Keats and drives him to create great poetry in order to feed on his psionic energy. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

The corpses of Harman Deltahead and Kun Lan, who had apparently been in the middle of a chess game, are found in Coburn Elementary School. (killer7)

Richard Sharpe and Patrick Harper are pulled out of retirement to track down Don Blas Vivar. (Sharpe)

Jean Valjean AKA "Madeleine" is granted the position of mayor in the city of Montreuil. Reluctantly, he accepts it. The Thenardier couple has a son in Montfermeil, later known by the name of "Gavroche". (Les Misérables)

1821

February 23: Death of poet John Keats in Rome, Papal States at the age of 26 (Real Life).

September 27-28 - The Mexican War of Independence ends. By the terms of the Treaty of Córdoba, Mexican forces under Agustín de Iturbide settle in Mexico City. The "Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire" declares Mexico officialy independent from Spain. (Real Life)

In the last days of Spanish rule over California, Don Rafael Montero discovers the secret identity of his nemesis Zorro. He slays Zorro's wifemore accidentally, sends him to prison and takes his daughter to Spain to raise for his own. (The Mask of Zorro)

The New Republic takes Coruscant, the galactic capital, from the Empire, which is rapidly deteriorating. The Bacta War drives the Empire and its overall ruler Ysanne "Iceheart" Isard off of Thyferra. (Star Wars: X-Wing - Wedge's Gamble through The Bacta War)

1822

The New Republic mounts a campaign against Warlord Zsinj, eventually destroying his super star destroyer Iron Fist and taking control of his territory. Zsinj is killed in the Battle of Dathomir later that year. Han Solo and Leia Organa marry. The Hapes Consortium joins the New Republic. (Star Wars: X-Wing - Wraith Squadron through Solo Command, The Courtship of Princess Leia)

Fantine loses her job at the Madeleine factory, and rapidly hits Rock Bottom. At the end of the year she is forced into prostitution after lagging behind on her payments to the Thénardiers.(Les Misérables)

1823

Grand Admiral Thrawn attempts and comes close to returning the Empire to glory, only to be assassinated by his bodyguard. In the aftermath, the New Republic launches a reprisal campaign against the Imperial Remnant warlord Delak Krennel, killing both him and a clone of Ysanne Isard, former Director of Imperial Intelligence. The real Ysanne Isard attempts to steal the SSD Lusankya, captured by the New Republic during the Bacta War, from the shipyard where she is being refitted, but is killed by New Republic Intelligence agent Iella Wessiri. Birth of Jacen and Jaina Solo to Han and Leia Organa Solo. (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, X-Wing - Isard's Revenge)

January: Fantine is assailed by a local slacker, and wrongfully arrested by Javert. She succumbs to her latent tuberculosis. Jean Valjean, living under the cover of "Madeleine", and the current mayor of Montreuil, blows his cover to save a suspect the court believes to be him. Fantine dies in Montreuil at the end of january, while Valjean gets arrested. He manages to escape, heads for Paris, where he takes his entire fortune out of Lafitte`s bank, and buries it all in a secret place near Montfermeil. (Les Misérables).

Summer: Valjean is arrested for the second time and is sentenced to death. The king alters this to a life sentence on the galleys (Les Misérables).

November 16: Jean Valjean saves a sailor from falling to his death while working on a naval vessel in Toulon. He escapes prison and goes undercover. (Les Misérables).

Christmas: Jean Valjean frees Cosette from the Thenardiers and takes her to Paris. (Les Misérables).

1824

Emperor Palpatine revived in a clone body, recaptures Coruscant and turns Luke to the dark side. Luke turns back and kills Palpatine a second time. (Star Wars: Dark Empire)

Peabody and Sherman help John James Audobon complete his painting of a rare Zebredese Chicken and finish his seminal bird book. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

British ambassadors to the Zulu nation witness a Zulu prince fighting a zombie as a rite of passage. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

Peer Gynt is on a luxury yacht off the coast of Morocco, having built his fortune on slave trade an other things for ten years. His company of gentlemen leaves him behind on the shore when they realize he is determined to support the Ottomans against the Greeks in the Greek rebellions. Peer Gynt manages to travel through Sahara, disguised as a bedouin chieftain, only to be robbed by another chieftains daugher. In the end, he arrives in Cairo, where he ends up in a local madhouse, being hailed as an emperor. (Peer Gynt)

Winter: Javert begins to stalk Valjean. Valjean escapes again, and hides in a monastery for several years. (Les Misérables)

1825

Emperor Palpatine revived a second time in another clone body. The cloning facility is destroyed and his spirit incapacitated. Coruscant retaken by New Republic. Birth of Anakin Solo to Han and Leia Organa Solo. (Star Wars: Dark Empire)

Durga the Hutt steals the Death Star plans from the New Republic's archives and builds a superlaser-equipped space station called Darksaber. Due to shoddy construction it fails to fire and is destroyed by asteroids before the Republic gets to it. Admiral Natasi Daala assassinates most of the Imperial Remnant warlords and unifies their fiefs, then launches an invasion of the New Republic. She is defeated at Yavin IV by the New Jedi Order and hands off command of the Imperial Navy to Gilad Pellaeon. (Star Wars: Darksaber)

Pellaeon annexes the Pentastar Alignment and takes their Executor-class star dreadnaught Reaper as his flagship. He marshals a fleet containing two more super star destroyers and launches the Orinda Campaign against the New Republic, successfully capturing several star systems. (The Essential Guide to Warfare)

Gen. Wedge Antilles and three other pilots are dispatched to the unaligned planet Adumar to try and convince its inhabitants to join the New Republic. They become embroiled in its international politics and end up siding with the lesser nations rather than Cartann, while the Imperial delegation sides with Cartann. The New Republic and allies defeat the Imperials and Cartann in the Battle of Adumar. Wedge Antilles marries Iella Wessiri. (Star Wars: X-Wing - Starfighters of Adumar)

French lawyer Georges Hautecourt is born.justification "Not as spry as I was when I was eighty, eh?" This line is spoken in 1910. (The Aristocats)

1830

Duncan MacLeod explores the jungles of Peru, accompanied by Paco, a local guide. They come across a native tribe led by the immortal Gavriel Larca. The entire tribe ends up dying from a disease caught off Paco; Larca seeks vengeance on MacLeod. (Highlander)

In Germany, Professor Professor Victor von Gerdenheim manages to create an artificial person. His excitement results in his death from a heart attack shortly after. His creation takes the name Victor von Gerdenheim and proceeds to go on a quest to win the approval of his father, having no idea what death was and thinking his father was silently brooding. (Darkstalkers)

Peabody and Sherman ride the Tom Thumb, the first locomotive in America, as it races against a horse and carriage. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

The Yevetha-ruled Duskhan League mounts a genocide against any non-Yevethan planets in the Koornacht Cluster. Beginning of New Republic military operations against the Duskhan League. (Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis)

1831

March 9: Peabody and Sherman help the French Foreign Legion defend a fort in the Sahara against an Arab army led by Chief Abdul Fanouk.

December 3: Charles Adare, the youngest son of a Lord, arrives in Sidney and gets involved in a love triangle and power struggle with Samson "Sam" Flusky, Lady Henrietta "Hattie" Considine and Milly. (Under Capricorn)

The New Republic formally declares war on the Duskhan League. The war ends in a New Republic victory; the Yevetha are driven to their homeworld and have all their ships destroyed. Nil Spaar, the leader, is kidnapped by his Imperial slaves during their successful uprising and ejected into hyperspace in an escape pod. (Star Wars: Black Fleet Crisis)

1832

June 5: Riots break out in Paris after the funeral of general Lamarck (Real Life). A student union joins the rebellion, and fight bravely to the end. One of them, Marius Pontmercy, is severely wounded and is rescued by Jean Valjean. (Les Misérables)

June 6, afternoon: Jean Valjean, carrying a severely wounded Marius, is attained by Javert close to a sewer outlet by the Seine. Together, they get Marius home to his grandfater. Later that night, Javert is reported missing, and is later found dead in the Seine. (Les Misérables).

The First Corellian Insurrection results in the destruction of two stars, one inhabited, by Centerpoint Station. The New Republic succeeds in quashing the insurrection. (Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy)

In London, immortal bounty hunter Ludmilla von Tcheka (Reagan Cole) tries to claim the £1,000 bounty on Duncan MacLeod's head, but rescues him after she decides the crime he is guilty of wasn't that bad. (Highlander)

Peabody and Sherman track down the only bull near Cadiz, thereby helping to establish bullfighting as the Spanish national sport. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

February 17: At mardi gras, Marius Pontmercy marries Euphrasie Fauchelevent, who still goes by the name "Cosette". Jean Valjean grants them most of his money and retires.(Les Misérables)

February 18: Jean Valjean opens up and tells his entire story to Marius, who decides to keep it a secret.(Les Misérables)

June: Jean Valjean dies of sorrow, but is relieved on his deathbed by Marius and Cosette. He is buried at the Pére Lachaise graveyard in Paris. (Les Misérables)

Approximate birth of Brand. His mother`s original suitor elopes with a romani woman. (Brand)

1835

Samuel Colt builds the Colt, a weapon that can kill anything in Creation with the exception of five beings, including the Archangel Lucifer. (Supernatural)

1836

In London, business partners William "Willie" Kingsley and Smythe have a falling out over the matter of Kingsley stealing £100,000 from the till. They have a duel, in which Smythe apparently kills the immortal Kingsley. Kingsley revives and sets off for America with his ill-gotten gains. (Highlander)

Sidney Malik is expelled from university and arrested by a bounty hunter. After a skirmish that leaves him inadvertently crowned The King Of Thieves, he and the hunter (Harriet Barker) go an adventure to sort this problem. (WiddershinsJustification Victoria is still a princess)

Jack O'Malley and his friend Wolfe are given a job helping the Widdershins police keep control of malformed summons. In the end they stop the person campaigning for the end of magic use from unleashing the summoned form of Sloth on the public. (WiddershinsJustification Victoria is still a princess)

Sidney and Harriet team up once again to rescue the stage hand who worked for Sidney's friend. (WiddershinsJustification Victoria is still a princess)

Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esq is elected president of the United States in a literal landslide victory. He quickly proves to be the silliest president of all time, and is quickly impeached and replaced by William Henry Harrison. All records of the Trembley Administration are destroyed. (Gravity Falls)

1838

Following an economic depression in Innsmouth, Obed Marsh founds the Esoteric Order of Dagon. (Cthulhu Mythos)

Immortals Grace Chandel and Carlo Sendaro leave for Sandaro's rubber plantation in South America. Their relationship is rather rocky. (Highlander)

In Paris, a group of businessmen who were all partners in the same company are murdered one by one, apparently by a vampire. more The culprit is actually immortal Nicholas Ward, the company lawyer, who exploits the victims' own fears. He escapes, but not before having a stake driven through his heart, courtesy of Mr. Baines. (Highlander)

1830s

Great Britain abolishes slavery throughout the British Empire, including the North American Union. Despite the fact that slave-owners are given compensation, this creates long-lasting tension within certain quarters of the country for generations to come. (The Two Georges)

The original Zorro trains a successor, is reunited with his daughter. more And dies in battle with his nemesis Montero. (The Mask of Zorro)

The Yuuzhan Vong conquer Coruscant, begin a process of xenoformingnote like terraforming, but no Terra involved that introduces plant matter back into the planet's ecosystem for the first time in millennia. Anakin Solo is killed in action on Myrkr. The Bothans declare ar'krai against the Yuuzhan Vong. (Star Wars: New Jedi Order)

Naayéé'neizgháni, the current Slayer, is killed by the demon To. Richard Wilkins I founds Sunnydale over on the site of her tomb despite more actually, because of the warnings of the Navajo locals. Marie Siegner becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

1842

New Republic reorganized into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. (Star Wars)

Peabody and Sherman help Kit Carson get away from a group of Indians when he can't remember their language's word for "goodbye". (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

Jonathan LaFey, with his wife Miriam Nathias, arrive at the mansion he has inherited. On their way there they are greeted by the Black Horsemen, who warn them of "18 becoming 9". (King Diamond album Abigail)

Emergence of Varney the Vampire, arguably the "first vampire with a soul". (Varney the Vampire)

March 9: The famous writer Lydia Novella dies at 8:16 PM. Her ghost will haunt Bizarroville Mansion for at least the next 150 years. (Reading Blaster Ages 9-12)

Birth of Caleb in Texas. He would grow up to become a merciless gunfighter and cultist to a Dark God. (Blood)

Irena Galati, an immortal gypsy, is raped, but her accusation is rejected as 'gypsy lies'. Her also-immortal husband, Jacob, kills the rapist; the two then flee their caravan with the aid of their friend, Duncan MacLeod. (Highlander)

Knudhansen Party disappears in the Central Rockies, gets zombified. Zombies put down by a group of Lakota, including Elija Black. (The Zombie Survival Guide)

Varney the Vampire kills himself by jumping into the crater of Mount Vesuvius. (Varney the Vampire)

1848

While travelling with the gypsies, Duncan MacLeod proposes marriage to Carmen, a young fortune teller. Carmen rejects him after reading his palm and seeing he will love hundreds of women and bury many of them. Duncan is driven from the caravan for insulting Carmen's family honour. (Highlander)

Peabody and Sherman forge a fortune cookie in order to get John Sutter to discover gold near his mill. (Rocky and Bullwinkle)

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